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BRIEF NOTICES OF NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



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Chajuosrops Excelsa. fPalmacecB.J — Any mention of the Palm tree at once 

 suggests to the mind's eye a tropical climate, with all its accompaniments. The 

 march of Botanical discovery has, however, introduced to us this hardy palm, 

 which braved, unharmed and unprotected by any sort of covering, the severe 

 winter of 1850 at the Eoyal Gardens of Kew. Sent from the north of China by 

 Mr. Fortune ; and a number of plants have also been imported by Messrs. Standish 

 and Noble, Bagshot. 



Chrysanthemum Hendeesonh. — This very remarkable variety originated in Italy, 

 and flowers in the open ground early in September ; indeed, so early that it has 

 ceased flowering before the generality of Chrysanthemums have commenced blooming. 

 From this peculiar character of the plant, it will probably prove the progenitor of a 

 new class of these interesting ornaments of the flower garden. It is of dwarf 

 habit, about two feet in height, and so dense a flowerer, that every morsel of young 

 wood is thickly clustered with flower-buds ; indeed, the whole plant is literally one 

 mass of well-formed orange-yellow flowers. By having the branches neatly pegged 

 down in the beds, the whole would look like a fine Eanunculus bed during the 

 autumnal months. Messrs. Henderson of the Wellington Nursery purchased the 

 entire stock of M. Pele, of Paris. 



Eugenia. Ugni. {Myrtacea.J—A. beautiful hardy evergreen shrub from South 

 Chili, having the habit and appearance of our European broad-leaved Myrtle, and 

 grows from three to four feet high, much branched, and blooming freely. The 

 flowers are globe-shaped, half an inch in diameter, white, tinged with rose. They 

 are produced singly in the axils of the leaves of the young shoots. Introduced by 

 Messrs. Veitch, in whose nursery it flourished out of doors ; and the plant will, in 

 all probability, prove much hardier than the common species. 



Gebanium Hendebsonii. (Geraniacea:.) — The great desideratum so long wished 

 for, of a perfectly White Geranium, is at length attained in this plant. It belongs 

 to the scarlet section, and gives very large handsome trusses of elegant white 

 flowers, the petals of which are not, however, equal in breadth to those of the 

 Scarlets, but are a great improvement upon the old albiflora. It is an exceedingly 

 free flowerer, and will form a striking contrast to the splendid scarlet varieties of 

 these popular plants. Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, St. John's Wood, pur- 

 chased the entire stock of this plant from Mr. Franklin, the fortunate raiser. 



Gebanium Shbubland Pet. — This very beautiful variety will prove one of the 

 greatest acquisitions to tho flower garden, and, as such, will be found indis- 



